The School of Economics at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics is nationally renowned for its dedication to excellence in teaching and research. The School offers B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. programs in economics in its four departments of Economics, Economic History, Political Economy and Quantitative Economics. It is the intellectual home of 87 faculty members and about 720 undergraduate and 250 graduate students.
With the implementation of a special education reform project called "Economics Innovation Platform", jointly funded by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance as well as Shanghai Government, the School is currently in a phase of moving quickly toward the best economics program in China and building up an international academic reputation in economics. During the past few years, the School has recruited over 50 tenured/tenure-track faculty members from renowned universities in the world, such as Yale, Berkeley, NYU, Minnesota, Toronto, Oxford, etc. In the next three years, we will continue to hire up to 20 faculty members with Ph.D. from top universities in North America and Europe. The faculty have published a large number of high quality papers in peer refereed journals, including American Economic Review, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Econometrics, Games and Economic Behavior, and Annals of Statistics, etc.